Moms of Medicine Alison Trainor

"I came to this point where I am like 6 months post partum at this point. So I've gone back to work, you know was in the swing of things, was working at that point 3 sometimes 4 days per week and I just was not happy in either situation. I wasn't fully happy at home and I wasn't fully happy at work and I told my employer 'I love you guys and I love it here but I just think I need to step away' and they were all like 'What are you gonna do?' And that was the first time in my life where I had n...

This episode is with Dr. Polly van den Berg, an Infectious Disease physician in Philadelphia.We talk about:- Timing of having a child in the context of her husband's brain cancer diagnosis- Post-partum anxiety- and so much more!Connect with Moms of Medicine:- Instagram @moms_of_medicine- Momsofmedicine@gmail.com

This episode is with Dr. Laura Vater, a GI oncologist in Indiana who focuses her non-clinical time on humanism, writing and well-beingWe talk about:- Writing her first novel and working on getting it published- Having her daughter in medical school- Breastfeeding her daughter for 2.5 years while being an internal medicine resident- The inspiration and motivation behind creating the life support community to support people in medicine- Her family's decision to have her husband quit his job and...

"I was super present with my kids when I was home. I didn't pull out phones, there weren't cell phones way back then that were so distracting. I would try not to be on the computer and making phone calls and things like that. I remember it that way of just being as present as possible. My kids still remember I was getting up at 6 in the morning and making them pancakes before they had to go to school and I had to go to work. So I really sacrificed sleep a lot because when they went to bed I w...

"After week 17 I think, I was worried about him. I knew that with my fibroids I would have pain. I was like it will be worse than what I had with my periods, but, well I can handle pain. I didn't factor in the emotional aspect of that. Like worrying about losing someone. So that to me was the hardest part."This episode is with Dr. Mwanasha Merril, a hematology and oncology fellow at Dana Farber Cancer InstituteWe talk about:- Having fibroids and how that impacted her pregnancy- The challenge ...

"Just before I turned 34 weeks I was doing my fellows clinic from my hospital room. I had a sign on the door like 'Do Not Disturb, I'm in clinic', and they were like we have to get your vitals at some point during this. So they came and took my blood pressure and it was like 170/100. The resident was pushing IV labetalol while I was precepting with my attending, and finally I was just like 'Ok, I think I'm done with clinic'. I had a few more patients left in the day and I was just like 'I'm d...